Influencers

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  SharlaYouTuber

  A pioneer of foreign YouTube creators who introduces Japan to the world, she was born in Canada. She experienced a "working holiday" and studied abroad in Iwate Prefecture. After she got back to Canada, she was shocked by the "Great East Japan Earthquake" and returned to Japan. She has lived in Japan for more than ten years. She started the YouTube channel "Sharla in Japan" in September 2011, when she was in Japanese University. She is interested in the good old Japanese culture and cultural climate, so she has visited all over Japan. She introduces various aspects of Japan such as travel and food with the advantage that she is a vegetarian.

  ※YouTube Channel
  [Sharla in Japan]

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  Chris BroadYouTuber

  Moved to Yamagata in 2012 from the UK for the JET program to teach English right after the "Great East Japan Earthquake".
  Created his own YouTube channel “Abroad in Japan” to share the beauty of Japan, especially the Tohoku area, with people from all over the world.
  Spoke at TED x Tohoku University and appeared on several platforms as a YouTuber to promote Japan based on his own experiences.

  ※YouTube Channel
  [Abroad in Japan]

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  Zoё VincentOverseas Promotion Specialist

  She was born in United Kingdom. She was an exchange student from the University of Edinburgh to Waseda University in Japan. After graduating from university, she worked as an English teacher in Nagasaki Prefecture. And she has been working as a Overseas promotion Specialist in the "Fukushima Prefecture Tourism ＆ Local Products Association" since August 2016. She has posted about sightseeing information of Fukushima Prefecture on her blog and Instagram with the theme of "Rediscover Fukushima" to overseas. She has also held a "hospitality" workshop to serve foreigners, and she offers support to receive the inbound customers to the municipals as well.

  ※BLOG
  [REDISCOVER FUKUSHIMA]